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...legs and an arm in Viet Nam. He recalls his own struggle with P.V.S. all too well: "It was like a series of secondary explosions going off in my head. I was on an emotional rollercoaster, and I didn't know where I was going." Added Don Crawford, a VA psychologist who directs Operation Outreach: "A lot of these veterans don't trust the Government. They feel it screwed them over. They won't even go into a Government building...
...Crawford has discovered that depressed or distraught vets can be coaxed into visiting the informal storefront offices of Operation Outreach. The offices, moreover, are generally manned by Viet Nam vets who have suffered similar emotional maladies. These counselors go through a weeklong training session designed to rid them of their own postwar hang-ups. They also learn how to tell when a vet needs professional psychiatric help rather than some friendly counseling...
...possibly believable, if unflattering, picture of the National Security Adviser-until the final paragraphs of the first installment, when Quinn related the zipper incident. She first heard of that encounter a year ago from Clare Crawford, a former Post staffer who is now a PEOPLE Magazine Washington correspondent. Crawford had just received from Brzezinski an autographed picture taken after she interviewed him for PEOPLE. At Crawford's office, says Quinn, she thought she saw a photo that showed Brzezinski unzipping his pants. Though hazy on details, Quinn now says that she heard someone say that this was indeed what...
...When Crawford read Quinn's sensational last paragraphs, she was appalled. Says Crawford: "At no time did Brzezinski do anything, either physically or verbally, that was improper or that could be interpreted as improper by anyone." He had sent the picture to her inscribed: "Clare, I really shouldn't! Zbig." Brzezinski was outraged at the Post's embroidery on his little sally. He and White House Press Secretary Jody Powell went to see the President. Carter was furious. Said he: "Go ahead and deal with...
Powell asked Crawford to the White House that afternoon to meet with himself, Brzezinski, White House Counsel Lloyd Cutler and Jerrold Schecter, Brzezinski's press secretary, to get the facts. On Powell's summons, Post Style Section Editor Shelby Coffey arrived with a lawyer. The paper printed its retraction the next day. (Many of the characterizations in Quinn's series are true. Though known as an exemplary husband and father, Brzezinski is notoriously vain and flirtatious...